VC/UHV Library Digital Collections

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Our Photograph Collection began in 1966 when Dr. Robert Shook, later joined by Charles Spurlin, began collecting historical photos of the region and copying them to 35 mm negatives. A 2001 grant enabled digitization of 3,500 negatives, chosen to represent a pictorial record of the arrival and assimilation of immigrants to the Victoria …

This collection includes published columns in the Victoria Regional History Center, Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library from the Victoria Advocate written by longtime Texas journalist Henry Wolff, Jr. As a fulltime columnist covering some 13 counties, Wolff wrote more than 7,000 columns about the people, places and …

﻿Student newspapers from the University of Houston-Victoria, are available as fully searchable PDFs. From 1976 through 1987, you can search the Armadillo Gazette and the UHVoice for your loved ones or yourself!

This collection includes images of campus and community events of the University of Houston-Victoria featuring students, faculty, staff, and guests. The photos span three decades beginning with the inception of UHV in 1973. Viewers can browse or search specific names, dates, or subjects using the general or advanced search options. …

About the collections

The Victoria College/University of Houston Library Digital Collections contains selected materials from the Victoria Regional History Center's collections and archives. These collections draw from a rich history of Victoria, Goliad, Jackson, Dewitt, Calhoun, Refugio, and Lavaca Counties, which comprise the Coastal Bend of Texas.

In our digital collections are images of photographs, newspapers, and other memorabilia of Coastal Bend culture and its inhabitants.

For more information about Victoria Regional History Center collections and archives, visit the VRHC website.

Please use the search tool to find images in all collections. Select Individual Collections to browse.